[All] CLARIN Newsflash April 2015

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CLARIN newsflash April 2015

New CLARIN members

Recently, both Portugal
<https://www.clarin.eu/news/portugal-joined-clarin-eric>  and Greece
<https://www.clarin.eu/news/greece-joined-clarin-eric>  have joined CLARIN.
A warm welcome to our new consortia and centres!

New B centres

Huygens ING and Talkbank have been awarded the B-centre status
<http://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-two-brand-new-b-centres> .
Congratulations!

B-centres have successfully passed the CLARIN centre assessment procedure
<https://www.clarin.eu/node/3767>  and can officially carry the CLARIN B
centre label.

Congratulations to our first CLARIN Knowledge Centre!

We are happy to announce that the Spanish CLARIN K Centre is the first to be
officially recognized as a Knowledge Centre.

Together three institutions cover much of the possible competence on text
and language processing technology competence on the major Spanish
languages: Spanish (Castellano), Catalan and Basque.

Read more
<https://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-our-first-clarin-knowledge-centr
e> 

Call for Papers: CLARIN Annual Conference 2015

CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the 4th CLARIN Annual Conference (October
15-17, Wrocław) and calls for the submission of papers.

The CLARIN Annual Conference is organized for the Humanities and Social
Sciences community in order to exchange ideas and experiences on the CLARIN
infrastructure. This includes the infrastructure's design, construction and
operation, the data and services that it contains or should contain, its
actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and
projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure.

The full Call for Papers, with instructions for submission, is available on
the CLARIN website
<http://clarin.eu/news/call-papers-clarin-annual-conference-2015> 

General details about the CLARIN Annual Conference can be found on the
CLARIN Conference website
<http://clarin.eu/event/2015/clarin-annual-conference-2015-wroclaw-poland> .


CLARIN is literally on the map of the European Research Infrastructures

The map shows the location
<http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=mapri_european
>  of the pan-European research infrastructures (RIs) that are listed in the
ESFRI roadmap 2010, including those that are established as ERIC - European
Research Infrastructure Consortium. The RIs are visualized through the city
of their headquarters. In case of distributed infrastructure, the location
of the partner facilities (e.g. CLARIN centres) is also displayed on the
map. About four hundred facilities are part of these distributed
pan-European research infrastructures that have been (or are being) set up
with the support of the European Commission.

CLARIN featured in EUDAT news

The CLARIN use case has been featured in a recent press release by the new
EUDAT 2020 project.
See http://www.eudat.eu/news/research-data-made-simple or this PDF for
distribution
<http://www.eudat.eu/system/files_force/EUDAT%20March%202015%20Press%20Relea
se_9%20March%202015.pdf> .

Workshop on Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities
(SAT4DH)

The field of Digital Humanities (DH) combines methodologies from traditional
humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics,
literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social
sciences with tools provided by digital publishing and computing (such as
data visualization, audio-visual indexing, information retrieval, data
mining, statistics, etc.).

It is of increasing interest for the speech technology community: 

.         Firstly, this domain has a high demand for speech technology and
applications. There are several areas in the Digital Humanities that involve
huge amounts of audio-visual data sources (e.g. oral history, archives of
special historical fields, endangered languages, etc.). Speech technology
can help to provide better access to these data and to extract relevant
information. This should allow scientists in the Digital Humanities to
generate and answer new research questions.  

.         Secondly, audio-visual data sets pose new research challenges for
speech and audio researchers: Often the recordings of Digital Humanities
scenarios are small, fragmented and of limited quality. Little established
linguistic knowledge is usually available. 

.         Further, the speech is often natural and spontaneous. Therefore,
new and better speech processing techniques are required. 

This workshop is designed to draw the attention of the speech technology
community to the field of Digital Humanities and to connect researchers
within and (in the past) tangential to this domain. 

It will be held on September 11, 2015 in Leipzig
<https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/location-1> , as a
Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015 <http://interspeech2015.org> . Read
on about the format
<https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/location>  of the workshop.

Click here <https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/home>  for more
details.

Multilingual Digital Single Market Open Letter

Exceptionally we would like to forward this important request to support an
open letter to the European Commission. Please have a look, and if you
agree, sign it!  This certainly seems to be in the best interest of CLARIN
and similar initiatives.
This is the website:  <http://www.multilingualeurope.eu>
http://www.multilingualeurope.eu.

Support for LinguistList FundDrive

We also would like to approach you exceptionally in behalf of our colleagues
from the LINGUIST List. They have asked us to support and divulgate their
yearly fund drive.

The services of LINGUIST List are certainly of core relevance for many
members of the CLARIN community, and indeed also for the CLARIN
infrastructure itself: for instance, we refer to LLmap and to the language
pages of LINGUIST List so that we do not have to create these valuable
resources of our own.

LINGUIST List's business model depends to a large extent on donations in
order to pay for the student assistants and developers that do most of the
editorial and daily work.  This year, the fund drive is not going as well as
in the previous years and as is needed in order to keep LINGUIST List
afloat.

So please, if you have not already done, consider donating to LINGUIST List
(and if you have already, consider donating again).  More importantly, speak
with others and promote this campaign, and consider even if you could
suggest that your institution or associations that you are a member of also
contribute.

Here are the relevant links:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1264.html (announcement)
http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/ (fund drive pages)
Thank you for your consideration!

Vacancy

The Labex EFL <http://www.labex-efl.org/>  (Empirical Foundations of
Linguistics) recruits a postdoctoral researcher, Empirical syntax or
semantics: quantitative and experimental approaches.

It is a full time position for 12 months. Depending on the results, the
position may be renewed for another 12 months. 

Job location : Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris

Application deadline : May, 1st 2015

More details about the vacancy and how to apply can be found on the EFL
website <http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=en/node/285> .

 

 

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